How To Pronounce Emerge

In British English, emerge is pronounced /ɪˈmɜːdʒ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪˈmɜːʴdʒ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪˈmɜːrdʒ/.

Emerge has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the second syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.